Analysis

The San Diego Symphony has announced the 2014-2015 Jacobs Masterworks season, its core series of classical concerts.

The series of 14 sets of concerts (plus a “classical special” with Pinchas Zukerman and the annual gala concert) includes a range of repertoire (Bach’s double violin concerto to a world premiere by David Bruce) and soloists (19-year-old pianist virtuoso Conrad Tao to the orchestra’s principal timpanist, Ryan DiLisi).

In addition to conducting the all-Beethoven “classical special,” Zukerman will conduct one of the subscription concerts. The iconic British conductor Neville Mariner will also guest conduct, as will the orchestra’s associate conductor, Ken-David Masur.

Most of the season concerts will be conducted by music director Jahja Ling, now in his 11th season, who is bringing back some of the repertoire he conducted early in his tenure.

“It’s a completely different orchestra now,” said Ling, as more than half of the orchestra has turned over during his tenure. “But also, as I learned in Cleveland (where later this season he will celebrate an association with the Cleveland Orchestra going back 30 years), the more you repeat a program, or a piece, the more the orchestra gets the depth of the interpretation.”

For the season opener, Ling is reviving an entire program that he did in October 2004, with works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Bruch and Mendelssohn.

“I love that program so much,” said Ling. “Last time we had Bill Preucil (as soloist in the Bruch); this time Hilary Hahn. And then the Mendelssohn Third has not been played the last 10 years. It’s such a wonderful piece; we have to play it again after such a long absence.”

Here is the San Diego Symphony’s 2014-15 Jacobs Masterworks Series. All programs are in the Jacobs Music Center. More information: sandiegosymphony.org